Flint water crisis docudrama headed to Lifetime

The stories of Flint, Michigan, residents poisoned by lead in drinking water soon will be captured in a made-for-TV movie. Flint — based on “The Toxic Tap,” Time‘s February cover story — is in fast-track development at Lifetime, EW has learned.

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (The Wiz Live!, The Sound of Music, Chicago) optioned the rights of journalist Josh Sanburn’s Feb. 1 story through Sony Pictures Television. Sanburn is set to serve as a consultant on the project.

The docudrama will explore how nearly 100,000 residents received contaminated water from the Flint River starting in 2014.